Lead security consultant, Vilnius

Barclays is a major global financial services provider engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking and wealth management with an extensive international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia.

With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs over 145,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.

Currently we are expanding and looking for Lead Security Consultant to join Global Information Security team.

Global Information Security (GIS) engages in a range of activities to maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of Barclays information assets and to assist Information Technology teams to deliver secure solutions to the business.

As Lead Security Consultant your responsibilities would include:

• Identify, plan, coordinate and supervise the delivery of security assessments and other security services required.
• Manage a virtual team/other resources on a project by project basis as required.
• Provide security consultancy to ensure new projects and services are deployed in a manner that ensures adoption of the relevant security strategy, designs, standards, controls and tools.
• Accountable for representing GIS in cross-functional change programmes and business area meetings to ensure that information security considerations are included and considered and informed decisions are made to achieve agreed outcomes.
• A high contributor in designing IT security solutions according to business and architectural requirements and standards.
• Assist Risk Owners to accurately assess the likelihood and impact of technical vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate with senior and Executive peers across all global IT functions to ensure build and maintenance of effective IT Security solutions and controls.
• Manage congruent relationships among the different development teams; work in partnership with business stakeholders to agree mutual priorities (between business and technology teams), and improvement opportunities which will deliver value.
• To provide technical advice and guidance on IT security related queries to both project and run areas as and when required.
• To produce due diligence reports to be used in the creation of action plans to guide any remedial actions needed.
• Leading in the negotiation phases of contract development with 3rd parties in relation to identifying and agreeing security requirements.
• To lead, from an IT security perspective, the supplier assessment process used in order to ensure that a suppliers capability to support services to an agreed level/standard is accurately assessed and reported.

We expect you to possess:

• Broad IT Security management expertise coupled with good understanding of financial services.
• Knowledge in multiple information security technologies and their strengths and shortcomings.
• Proven experience with securing information for cross-functional, cross-platform applications.
• Understands different project methodologies, project lifecycles, major phases, dependencies and milestones within a project.
• Deliver results which add value to the business stakeholders through strategic decision-making and improving Security Solutions profiles through processes or technology.
• Experienced at implementing or managing risk management processes and tools.
• Understands security controls from a people, process and technology perspective.
• Familiar with integration and implementation issues and their security implications.
• Ability to influence outcomes and strategy amongst stakeholders, including senior Executives.
• Fluency in English.

If it sounds like you, please click the link to apply:

https://barclays.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en_gb&job=00229729&src=JB-12040

Barclays Values and Diversity

Our common purpose is to help people achieve their ambitions – in the right way. We’ll measure and reward our people, not just on commercial results, but on how they live our Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship and bring them to life every day.

To find out more about working at Barclays and the development opportunities we offer please visit our website www.barclays.com

We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.